The New York Times may be the nation's paper of record, whose slogan is "all the news that's fit to print," but increasingly it's a paper targeted at the monied elite and it shows. There is nothing wrong with that, of course, but it's funny to see a paper that claims to be the tribune of the oppressed writing long stories about the national crisis of inadequate wi-fi coverage at technology events, as Vern G. Kopytoff did today.
Last month in San Francisco at the Web 2.0 Summit, where about 1,000 people heard such luminaries as Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, and Eric E. Schmidtof Google talk about the digital future, the Wi-Fi slowed or stalled at times.
Earlier this year, Steven P. Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, had to ask the audience at his company’s developer conference to turn off their laptops and phones after his introduction of the iPhone 4 was derailed because of an overloaded Wi-Fi network.
Oh the humanity! Seriously. This needs to be in The New York Times' business section?
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